I will volunteer to remain with you, and toward sunset, we will walk through the old orchard.

Allan will await us there." The girl's heart beat; it was a romantic dream after all--that strange, wonderful reality; the interview she had so often imagined was to take place at last.
"I cannot tell an untruth," she said to Miss Lyster; "I could not if I tried.

How could I excuse myself from going ?" Adelaide looked slightly shocked.
"I would not ask you to speak untruthfully, not even to save Allan's life, dearly as I love him," she said.

"There is no need.

Say you are not inclined to go.